Emily Sheffer (b. 1993)  is a photographic artist, educator, and book designer. She is the founder of Dust Collective, a handmade photography book publisher, and has published over a dozen artist books. She earned her BFA in Photography with Departmental Honors from The Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2015. In 2019, Maine Media Workshops invited Emily to be their book-artist-in-residence. Emily graduated in 2022 from The University of Hartford Photography MFA program, where she was awarded the Merit Scholarship. In 2022, Emily completed a residency with Tusen Takk Foundation with collaborator Barbara Bosworth. She currently works as a studio director and visiting professor of photography in New England.

AWARDS

• Tusen Takk Artist-in-Residence, Leland, MI, 2022

• Book Artist In Residence, Maine Media Workshop and College, Rockport, ME, 2019

• Review Santa Fe 100, CENTER, Santa Fe, NM, 2016

• LensCulture Top 50 Emerging Photographer, 2015

SELECT Exhibitions

• Notes from a Detour, University of Hartford Photography Master of Fine Arts thesis exhibition, Hartford, CT, 2022

• What Photography Is, The Eleanor D. Wilson Museum, Hollins University, Roanoke, VA, Curated by Kyra Schmidt, 2022

• A Yellow Rose Project, Boston University, Faye G., Jo, and James Stone Gallery, Boston, MA, 2021

• A Yellow Rose Project, Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Denver, CO, 2021

• Dust Collective: Handmade Photography Books, Aviary Gallery, Jamaica Plain, MA, 2021

• Intimate View, New England School of Photography, Boston, MA, Curated by David Hilliard, 2017

• Fay Chandler Emerging Art Exhibition, Scollay Square Gallery, Boston City Hall, Boston, MA, Curated by Karen Haas, 2016

• LensCulture Emerging Talent Exhibition, San Francisco Camerawork Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2015